Hands up! Who wants the new wave of skin treatments?

They've long been neglected — now hands are getting the care they deserve

- BY ROSE BEER

For years our faces have enjoyed all of the finesse. The lasers, the light therapy, the injections, the actives, the hot new formulations fresh from laboratories in Paris, Switzerland or Japan. Our hands, meanwhile, permanently exposed, overused, outrageously thin-skinned, have been lucky to get a slick of cream by the sink. The problem with this approach, I am fast learning, is that when we so diligently tend to our faces and not our hands, the latter can alas begin to give the game away. Luckily, the beauty world is catching on. Hands, once overlooked, are finally finding their place on the treatment menus of London's top doctors, their needs addressed too by first-rate product formulators and brands, meaning that a roster of purpose-built treatment protocols and products designed to restore and revitalise are now trickling through. Hand ageing used to be thought of as inevitable now we can effectively address not just skin quality, but issues like volume loss and pigmentation, too.